Annabel Bentley: Pregnancy and swine flu: facemasks and self imprisonment?
If you’re pregnant lock yourself in the house, shut the curtains and wear a facemask if you so much as put your nose outside the door… has advice to pregnant women finally gone too far? Or, given that at least six healthy women in their second and third trimesters of pregnancy are reported to be in intensive care with pandemic flu in Australia is this reasonable advice? The difficulty is that as yet we don’t know enough about the behaviour of the new H1N1 flu virus
